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She was encouraged to take action, and did so by creating the Facebook group, Land Park Society. The nearly 500-member group posts photos and comments highlighting the problems.

"As soon as you post something my first question is did you report it?" she said. "Part of our strategy is to bring attention to this, and not that the city isn't trying to do their best, I'm sure they are, but not to feel like we're being ignored."

The Greater Broadway Partnership-Business Improvement District said members have been using their own resources to address the issues.

"We have our own maintenance crews that are out here everyday from 7-3:30, and we also pay for private security," Greater Broadway Partnership Executive Director Joan Borucki said. "It has been difficult for us, but again that's no different from anywhere else in the city."

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Many people are still choosing to move in and accept the realities of urban living.

Bike Dog Brewing opened its second location on Broadway on Tuesday.

"We've been open for one day. It was awesome. We're the shiny new object right now," Bike Dog Brewing owner Sage Smith said. "We got great freeway access and improving streetscape coming, so it just made sense."

Neal Dittmar was one of the first residents to move into The Mill at Broadway, a new development located in Sacramento's upper Land Park.

"I wanted to live in the downtown area and it was the most affordable for me," he said.

The 2-year-old community now has 120 homes, with hundreds more expected to be built in the next five to six years.